etiolation
Example Sentences
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Perhaps he overlooked the packets’ stern warnings about overcrowding and etiolation and damping off, their instructions to carefully sprinkle pre-wetted soil extremely sparsely with, say, five seeds at a time.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 23, 2019
Laying of Wheat and other cereals is a particular case of etiolation.
From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall
The seeds having been sown too thickly, the bases of the haulms, owing to the etiolation and consequent lack of carbohydrates, suffer from want of stiffening tissues, and the top-heavy plants fall over.
From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall
Sunlight, moreover, has not only this action upon the animal kingdom, but also upon the vegetable world as well Plants, like celery, which are subjected to blanching, become whitened under the process of etiolation.
From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Muskett, Philip E.
The last, in its wild state, is said to be pernicious, but etiolation changes the products and renders them harmless.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various
